Who, being loved, is poor?
—Oscar Wilde
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
—Torquato Tasso
You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.
—Claudia Gray in Evernight
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
—George Eliot
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
—Henry Fielding
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf
I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.
—Rainbow Rowell in Landline
Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.
—Leigh Bardugo in Ruin and Rising
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
—Vincent Van Gogh
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
—Willa Cather
Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
—Thomas Merton
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
—Plato
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
—John Irving
Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.
—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet